> Reading about how to do the thing isn't doing the thing
In my book, doing research/understanding the domain is a crucial part of "doing the thing". Often reading about how to do the thing makes you reconsider doing it at all.
Things that aren't doing the thing
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#122There's a Romanian proverb: Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Corollary: Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today, put off until the day after tomorrow, maybe by then it won't be necessary.
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#123> Reading about how to do the thing isn't doing the thing In my book, doing research/understanding the domain is a crucial part of "doing the thing". Often reading about how to do the thing makes you reconsider doing it at all.
I also think this is true, but one thing distinguishes the two and that is commitment. Resarch opens up new possibilities while doing the thing narrows them. Many people (myself included) have difficulties with that. Reading will only get you so far and I think that is what the poem adresses.
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#124I am sitting on the toilet right now, and while reading this article, I am really actually doing the thing.
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#125> Preparing to do the thing isn't doing the thing. For some types of work, the work we call prep work is 90% of the work and most of what determines how well the finished product turns out. Painting is a good example. You can grab a bucket of paint and paint brush and start “doing the thing” by slapping paint on the surface. Your paint job is going to be very poor and fail early relative to a professional who properl…
Prep work sucks. In whatever field, I always love hearing from the greats how they make the hard work a little less sucky. Good tools, better workflows, figuring out what they can let slide, accepting the struggle and getting zen. The people who do it 80% right and manage to make peace with that always seem the most productive.
I don’t think prep work sucks. Cleaning up after, though… Although maybe that’s just prep work for the next time ;-).
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#126Corollary: Doing the thing and not talking about it in a hammer tweet is also 'not doing the thing'.
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#127Not doing the thing is a habit that's hard to break. Doing the thing is a powerful habit. Especially when you stop thinking about it.
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#128I’m missing one: Scheduling a weekly status meeting about the thing is not doing the thing.
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#129For someone without ADHD's `executive disfunction`, one of the code ADHD struggles, this post reads as nonsense. Thus only minority could relate to the post: the ones who have ADHD ones who think they understand ADHD.
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#130I have a print out of this on my wall. I also have pretty bad ADHD. It's been on my wall a year and I still haven't done the thing (really a series of small aversive, timeliness and administration heavy things). I oscillate between trying to do the thing, and trying to treat ADHD or at least not regress (sleep (difficult), exercise, nutrition, intoxicants socially only, stay away from digital dopamine sinks (really h…
Struggle is real. Don't take too seriously the ones who incapable to relate.